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- A comprehensive study led by scientists from Freiburg and Beijing has characterized the adaptations of the moss Takakia to high altitudes and documented its population decline.
- The moss Takakia is exposed to extreme conditions such as frost and high UV radiation in the Himalayas. The current study identifies the adaptations that protects it from these extreme environmental influences, and reconstructs its evolution.
- Takakia is the oldest living genus of land plants. Comparison with fossils shows that its appearance has remained unchanged for at least 165 million years. As part of the study, the genome of Takakia lepidozioides was completely sequenced for the first time.
- Over a 10-year period, the researchers documented the decline of Takakia populations on the Tibetan Plateau, as well as a significant increase in average temperatures and retreat of a nearby glacier.
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Much as yeast serves in bakeries as single-celled helper, the bacterium Escherischia coli is a must in every biotechnology lab. A team led by Prof. Dr. Barbara Di Ventura, professor of biological signaling research at the University of Freiburg, has developed a new so-called optogenetic tool that simplifies a standard method in biotechnology: Instead of feeding the bacteria with sugar as commonly done, the researchers can now simply shine light on them. Di Ventura, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Hani Khammash from ETH Zurich/Switzerland and their teams, foremost first authors Edoardo Romano and Dr. Armin Baumschlager, published their results in
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